Accio tissues! Daniel Radcliffe gushed to Us Weekly exclusively about his girlfriend Erin Darke, and his feelings for his longtime love are sweet tearjerkers.

Explaining that Darke, 29, is "absolutely" his best friend, Radcliffe, 25, told Us, "I think that's the kind of relationship I always aspire to have with someone I'm in a relationship with. You want that person to be your best friend."

"I don't think you can ever control how anything starts," the British actor said. "It's not like I seek out that way of meeting people or think I have to be their friend first but I think it's often a very natural thing to progress from into a relationship. The whole modern idea of 'friend zone' and all that stuff—that's a word I don't like very much."

Radcliffe and his actor girlfriend met in 2012, when they were filming the drama Kill Your Darlings, and have been together throughout the two years since.